1786 in literature
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This is a list of literature-related events in 1786.
Events
- January 19 - Franziska Stading plays the female lead in Gustav Vasa (with libretto personally overseen by King Gustav III of Sweden) at the Royal Swedish Opera.[1]
- July 31 - Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect is published by John Wilson in Kilmarnock. The volume proves so popular that Burns abandons his plans to emigrate to Jamaica on September 1 for a post as a bookkeeper on a slave plantation and on November 27 sets out for Edinburgh on a borrowed pony.
New books
- William Thomas Beckford - Vathek
- James Boswell - Dorado, a Spanish Tale (published anonymously)
- Gottfried August Bürger after Rudolf Erich Raspe - The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen (translated into German from English)
- Harriet Lee - The Errors of Innocence[2]
- André Robert de Nerciat - Le Diable au Corps
- Friedrich Schiller - The Ghost-Seer (Der Geisterseher, publication commences)
- Sarah Trimmer - Fabulous Histories[3]
New drama
- Tituš Brezovački - Sveti Aleksij
- John Burgoyne - The Heiress and Richard Coeur de Lion
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Iphigenia in Tauris (verse version)
- Elizabeth Inchbald – The Widow’s Vow
- John O'Keeffe - Love in a Camp
New poetry
Main article: 1786 in poetry
Non-fiction
- Immanuel Kant - Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Naturwissenschaft
- Friedrich Schiller - Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre
- Emanuel Swedenborg - Divine Love and Wisdom (translated from Latin into French by Antoine-Joseph Pernety)
- Hester Thrale - Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson
Births
- February 3 - Wilhelm Gesenius, philologist and theologian (died 1842
- February 24 - Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (died 1859)
- May 12 - Jean-François Barrière, French historian (died 1868)
- June 20 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, French poet (died 1859)
- June 26 - Sunthorn Phu, Thai poet (died 1855)
- August 25 - James Silk Buckingham, journalist and travel writer (died 1855)
- October 23 - Barron Field, poet (died 1846)
Deaths
- January 19 - John Duncombe, poet and journalist (born 1729)
- March 11 - Jacobus Bellamy, poet (born 1757)
- April 13 - Jan Tomáš Kuzník, Czech musician and poet (born 1716)
- May 4 - Johann Kaspar Füssli, artist, scientist and publisher (born 1743)
- August 15 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, critic (born 1730)
- November 30 - Thomas Thistlewood, diarist (born 1721)
- December 26 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian dramatist and critic (born 1713)
References
- ↑ Breitholtz, Lennart (1954). Studier i operan Gustaf Wasa: Études sur la genèse de l'opéra Gustaf Wasa. Uppsala universitets årsskrift (0372-4654), 1954:5 (in French). Uppsala: Lundequistska bokh.
- ↑ University of Montreal: British Women Playwrights around 1800 Accessed 28 April 2013
- ↑ Grenby, M.O. “‘A Conservative Woman Doing Radical Things’: Sarah Trimmer and The Guardian of Education.” Culturing the Child, 1690–1914. Ed. Donelle Ruwe. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8108-5182-2, "Introduction", viii.
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